Corn-harvester.



W. D. HAZENHYER..

CORN HARVESIER.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 3.19m. RENEWED IuLY I7. Isis.

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CORN HARVESTER.

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Patented Sept 10, 1918.

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Giro Held WILLIAM D. HAZENHYER, OF WELLINGTON, KANSAS, ASSIGNOR OFFORTY-NINE ONE-HUNDREDTI-IS T0 JAMES W. CALTA, OF PLATTE, SOUTH DAKOTA.

CORN-HARVESTER.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Sept. 10, 1918.

Application led May 3, 1916, Serial No. 95,128. Renewed July 17, 1918.Serial No. 245,404.

To all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, WILLrA-M D. HAZEN- HYER, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at IVellington, in the county of Sumner and State ofKansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Corn-Harvesters; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear,and exact description of the invention, such as will enable othersskilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use theV same.

My invention relates to new and useful improvements in corn harvestersand my object is to provide an improved device of this class which willcut two rows of corn at one time. j

Other objects and advantages will be hereinafter set forth and moreparticularly pointed out in the accompanying specification.

In the accompanying drawings which are made a part of this application,

Figure 1 is an end elevation of the machine showing parts thereof brokenaway.

Fig. 2 is a diagrammatic top plan view of the chains employed fortransporting the stalks from the cutters to a common point at the rearof the machine. K Y

Fig. 3 is a detail plan view of`means for driving certain of saidchains, and

Fig. 4 is a top plan view of the machine with parts thereof removed andportions broken away.

Referring to the drawings in which similar reference numerals designatecorresponding parts throughout the several views, 1 indicates a frame,the side and end bars of which are preferably formed of hollow sections,thefront bar 2 of the frame-being formed in sections, which sectionsare. spaced apart to form passages 3, the passages being so positionedthat the stalks of growing corn will register with and enter saidpassages.

providing guards or fingers 5 forv guiding the stalks of corn of the tworows into their respective passages.

The cross bars 4 and the angular faces of the guards 5, adjacent thepassages 3, are provided with knives 6, the cutting edges of the knivesextending at an angle to the faces of the parts to which they aresecured so that a stalk of corn coming in contact with the knives willbe partially severed while entering the passages. Adapted to reciprocatetransversely of the passages 3 are cutting blades 7 carried by a bar 8,said bar being attached at one end to a ptman 9 which pitman is in turnattached to the usual form of crank wheel 10, the cutting blades 7, intheir movement, cooperating with the inner ends of the knives 6 forreadily severing the stalks of corn.

The crank wheel 10 is operated by a driving shaft 11 through the mediumof gears 12 and 13 and a shaft 14, the driving shaft 11 being operatedfrom the driving wheels 15 through the medium of sprockets 16 and 17 andsprocket chains 18 coperating therewith. The frame 1 is adjusted withrespect tothe wheels 15 by extending the ends of the axles 19 of thewheels 15 into slots 20 of brackets 21, said brackets being attached tothe bars of the frame 1 and connected to said axles are cables 22 whichcablesare adapted to be wound upon or unwound from drums 23 carried byan operating shaft 24, and it will Abe readily seen that as the cablesare wound upon the drum, the frame 1 will be' raised and when unwoundtherefrom the frame will be lowered.

The shaft 24 is operated by hand to raise and lower theframe byproviding an operating rod 25, the forward end of which has attachedthereto a gear 26 which meshes with agear 27 on the shaft 24', saidoperating rod being extended. rearwardly y,of the frame 1 and through astandard 28 at the rear end of a tongue structure 29, the rear end ofthe `rod having a crank portion 30 which is to vbe grasped by the driverand the rod 25 rotated to wind or unwind the cables.

The tongue structure- 29 is attached to the frame 1 in any suitablemanner, preferably by hinging the same and is extended rearwardly alsuiiicient distanceto accommodate the draft animal inthe rear of theharvester, any preferred form of equalizer or draft appliance 31 beingattached to the tongue structure 29 immediately forward of the seat 32at the end of the tongue.

A guide wheel 33 is positioned below the rear end of the tongue 29, theperiphery of which is preferably provided with a substantially V-shapegroove 34 so that it will readily grip the surface of the soil overwhich it is passing. The guide wheel is attached to a vertical shaft, tothe upper end of which is secured a gear 35 which meshes with a worm 36,said worm being mounted upon a shaft 37 carried by the standard 28, theends of the shaft being formed into crank pedals 38 so that the saidchains passing around sprockets 41 ad-v jacentthe pointed ends of theguards 5 and also around sprockets 42 carried by vertically extendingshafts 43 and as said chains 40 are inclined downwardly the -shafts 43are likewise set at an inclination or at right angles to the trendl ofthe chains, and in order to cause the chains to travel along the taperededges of the guards 5 and then parallel with the cross barsy adjacentthepassages, idlers 44 are positioned on the front bar of the frame onopposite sides 0f the passages 3.

lIn order to carry the severed stalks to the rear of the machine anddischarge the stalks ata common point, guide ways 45 and 46 are extendedrearwardly from the cutting blades 7, the guide way 45 extending in astraight line to the rear edge of the frame 1, while the rear portion ofthe guide way 46 is directed at an angle so that it will intersect theguide way 45 yat a point adjacent the rear edge of the frame 1 therebydisf charging the stalks from'- both of the guide ways lat a commonpoint.

The stalks, after leaving the guide ways 45 and 46, enter a bindingconstruction, but as' said binding construction forms no part of myinvention, it is not deemed necessary todescribe the same. `After thestalks have been bound into bundles, the bundles are discharged onto atilting platform 47 from whence they descend upon an endless carriver 48and are deposited at one side of the path of the harvester and the draftanimals the shafts 43 are disposed at an angle to the trend of thechains 49 and 50, said shafts are provided with universal joints 51above the sprockets 42 so that that portion of the shafts 43, above saidsprockets, will remain in a vertical position or at right angles to thetrend of the chains 49 and 50,. said vertical portions of the shaftshaving sprockets 52 and 53 around which the chains 49 and 50 travel, therear ends of said chains extending around sprockets 54 and 55respectively, carried 4by shafts 56 and 57.

The shafts 56 andl 57 are rotated by extending belts 58 and 59 aroundsaid shafts and around the vertically extending shafts 60 and 61, saidshafts having gears 62 and 63 attached thereto which mesh with similargears 64 and 65 on the driving shaft`11,

while the pairs of endless ,chains 40 areV driven from the shafts 60 and61 by means of belts 66, sprockets 67, sprocket chains 68 and sprockets69 attached to the lower ends of the shafts 43, the'sprocket chains 68bein@ so arranged with respect to the sprockets 67 and 69 that the pairsoffendless chains will be caused to travel in the same direction, asshown in Fig.3of the drawing.

In order to prevent the guide ways 45 and 46 from coming in contact withany of the gears, said guide ways are elevated between their ends so asto pass over said gears and driving chains, as best shown in Fig. 1 ofthe drawing.y

The driving shaft 11 may be disconnected from thedriving wheels 15 byproviding a suitable clutch mechanism 70 adjacent the sprockets 16 whichclutches are drawn out of engagement with said'sprockets by means of aylever mechanism 71 coperating with disks 72 on the driving shaft l1,said disks being connected to the clutches 7 O by means of cables 73,the lever mechanism being operated by the driver, by extending a rod 74from the lever mechanism to a point adj acent' the seat 32.

j The carrier 48 is'intermittently operated by arranging a clutch 75 onthe driving shaft 76, said shaft being operated from the gearv 12 bymeans of a pinion 77, the clutch being operated by levers 78 connectedto an operating rod 79,'the outer end of the ,rod being attached to afoot lever 80 in conven'ient'reach of the driver.

In operation, as the machine is moved forwardly, the stalks of corn,whether standing straight or leaning torone side of the rows, will begathered by the guards 5v and endless chains connected v'therewith andbrought into the path of the cutting blades and knives where the stalkis Vseveredy and then carried by the chains and guide ways to therear ofthe frame and discharged at a common point, and 'after the stalks havevY been bound into a bundle, the bundle is movedY onto a'platform47 whichplatform automatically trips and discharges the bum dle on to thecarrier 48. The foot lever 80 is then operated to apply rotating powerto the carrier which will move the bundle laterally of the machine anddischarge the same at a point beyond the path of the draft animals, andif desired, the carrier can be made of suiicient length to contain anumber of the bundles.

Having thus fully described my invention what I claim as ne-w and desireto secure by Letters Patent of the United States, 1sz- In a double rowcorn harvester a main frame having at its front end oppositely inclinedguiding fingers and rearwardly eX- tended passages therefrom, knives atthe entrances to said passages, cutting blades and means forreciprocating them transversely of said passages for coperation withsaid knives, guide ways extended rearwardly from said cutting blades onein a straight line and the other having its'rear portion directed at anangle to intersect the firstnamed guide way, a driven shaft carried bythe frame and operatively geared to the su-pporting wheels, gatheringand conveying means for moving the stalks through the guide ways andmeans for Operating said gathering and conveyer means from said drivenshaft, the said guide ways being elevated between the ends to pass overthe. dri-ving mechanism, and a carrier intermittently operated from thedriving shaft.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification.

WLLIAM D. HAZENHYER.

Copies o! this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patente, Washington, E. C."

